1 His first object was to reach Starkfield before Hale had started for his work; he knew the carpenter had a job down the Corbury road and was likely to leave his house early.
2 In the quiet of the halt, Carol could hear a horse kicking his stall, a carpenter shingling a roof.
3 It was larger than the carpenter shop beside it, but not so well built.
4 She read all she could find regarding staging, she bought paint and light wood; she borrowed furniture and drapes unscrupulously; she made Kennicott turn carpenter.
5 As a carpenter's nails are divided into wrought nails and cut nails; so mankind may be similarly divided.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 6 The mark they thus leave on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in countersinking for a screw.
7 This was an easy thing, for the carpenter had been thrusting his shavings into the furnace throughout the passage.
8 This done, the carpenter received orders to have the leg completed that night; and to provide all the fittings for it, independent of those pertaining to the distrusted one in use.
9 But most humble though he was, and far from furnishing an example of the high, humane abstraction; the Pequod's carpenter was no duplicate; hence, he now comes in person on this stage.
10 A belaying pin is found too large to be easily inserted into its hole: the carpenter claps it into one of his ever-ready vices, and straightway files it smaller.
11 An oarsman sprains his wrist: the carpenter concocts a soothing lotion.
12 Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation.
13 A sailor takes a fancy to wear shark-bone ear-rings: the carpenter drills his ears.
14 Thus, this carpenter was prepared at all points, and alike indifferent and without respect in all.
15 Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton.